Terrifying new video shows how armed gang pounced on Amir Khan and wife Faryal Makhdoom before stealing his £72,000 watch
TSB News reports the dramatic new CCTV video has emerged of Amir Khan being robbed of his £72,000 diamond-encrusted watch at gunpoint in East London, as the boxer admitted today that he is now ‘very scared’ to walk around the capital.
The Olympic silver medallist, 35, and his wife Faryal Makhdoom, 30, were crossing the road in Leyton when two thugs ran over and pointed a gun in his face while demanding the Franck Muller Vanguard Chronograph. Khan – who is now in Dubai with his wife – handed the watch over and the thieves sped off in a car, but the incident on Monday left them both shaken.
Khan said today he feels ‘very unsafe’ in London ‘because it is very dangerous’. He has blamed Sadiq Khan for this fear, telling MailOnline that the London Mayor has failed to tackle crime in the capital and needs to ‘pull his finger out’. Today, Amir Khan also told ITV’s Good Morning Britain : ‘You know, even after it happened, I was still in London for another two days, and I was walking around and I was very scared.’
He told MailOnline: ‘My plan was to move to London later this year with Faryal and the kids but after what happened there’s no chance that we’ll be doing that. London is not a place I want to live in anymore. Our plan to move there is not happening.’